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Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "DNC Makes It Harder to Qualify for Debates" video.
@governmentcheese2257 I'm a veteran myself, and I swear, no one this side of Walter Sobchack invokes veteran status as much as her.
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He doesn't. He explicitly excludes people who already get benefits, and he has admitted that people with disabilities likely won't benefit.
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There is a list.
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@user-os8sq3uh4n McCain was a captain. A navy captain is the equivalent to an army colonel. A colonel outranks a major, and McCain held a combat position whereas Tulsi Gabbard is a medic. Not even close! What difference does rank have to do with anything? Is my opinion on military matters better than Gore's because I was a sergeant and he was a specialist? Is it less than any officer or former officer? She is isolationist, not anti-war. There is a difference. No one who praised Putin for bombing civilians in Syria (who he pretended were ISIS to help Assad) can ever be called anti-war. No one who defended torture using the scenario from 24 can ever be considered a "peace candidate." And where was her leadership when it came to invoking the War Powers Act to stop our efforts in Yemen? Oh, that's right. She just gets on TV, talks about being a veteran every few seconds as though that should insulate her from criticism, instead of doing what Bernie is doing and learning how to use the power that he has for good.
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Actually, having too many candidates makes it easier for an establishment candidate to hide his/her awfulness. Out of the 24 candidates running, how many do you honestly think are not establishment or centrist? I would say the most generous estimate is about 1/4 of them.
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@marcperez2598 It takes 15% to be viable. If there are too many candidates, it would be far harder for one to break through, anyway. At least three candidates that I can think of (Yang, Gabbard, Williamson) got to the donor threshold before they got to the polling threshold. Given how early most candidates got to 65K, how many of them (who didn't just get a lot of dollar donations to get on stage) do you think will have trouble getting there by the end of August?
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And with a 15% threshold to get any delegates at all, people with no hope of viability in any states are just wasting everyone's time.
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@berniegotscrewed7105 There aren't that many big donors. There is no rule on how big the dollars have to be to get to 130K. And if you really do want Bernie as your handle states, you wouldn't want over 20 people to be on the primary ballot unless you think they will mostly take votes from Biden.
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@firerocket7343 No, he just lifted the cap on age, which makes sense given the fact that full retirement age for anyone born after 1960 is 67. Hopefully, he didn't just learn that. He still doesn't offer the full $1000 to people getting other benefits, and he poorly defines "existing benefits." At the very least, it seems like he includes TANF & SNAP, but makes no mention of things like daycare subsidies and LIHEAP.
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@governmentcheese2257 I can't help but wonder if the whole discussion (and how many people seem surprised when veterans say it's laid on thick) is a side effect of having so few in the military today. Not that I want a draft or anything, just a thought when hearing people mention military service.
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@user-os8sq3uh4n Oh, and in a further example of how she exploits her military service, when she cut an ad for Bernie, his campaign put disclaimers on any picture of hers in uniform that this did not constitute an endorsement from the DOD. Does Tulsi do that? No, she doesn't. Then again, a lot of us who served don't feel the need to bring it up every other sentence.
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@user-os8sq3uh4n And if you are really echoing Moscow Donald with that "never got captured" nonsense, then you are a worthless piece of human garbage. His plane was shot down, and that is how he got captured. You can question how much he actually talked when he got captured, but getting captured happens in the military. Or are you going to defame Purple Heart recipients as well because your cult leader Tulsi doesn't have one, either?
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15 candidates or so are already halfway there, so it doesn't seem unreasonable at all. Give candidates time to catch on. If not, there is no point in that many candidates to let someone like Biden hide.
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